Welcome to the Division of
Global Public Health

It is our goal to increase awareness and prevent diseases of global health importance through research and training programs based at UCSD and internationally. Read More

FEATURED:

Victoria Ojeda, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, and Jose Luis Burgos, MD, Assistant Professor have received funding from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas program for the collaborative Health Frontiers in Tijuana student-run free clinic in Tijuana. ...Read More

Did You Know We Work in over 15 Countries?

New Joint Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Substance Use

The School of Social Work at San Diego State University and the Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, UC San Diego are proud to offer a new Joint Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Substance Use Studies. This program is Directed by Dr. Steffanie Strathdee at UCSD and Dr. Maria Luisa Zuniga at SDSU, who has a joint appointment with UCSD. If you are interested in mentoring opportunities, or learning more about the JDP, please contact the program Coordinators Carolyn Oliver, at UCSD or at phdresearchsubstanceuse@mail.sdsu.edu for SDSU.

Global Health News

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Patty Gonzalez-Zuniga for her excellent advocacy for Tijuana’s deportees in this Buzzfeed story.

Dr. Richard Garfein, Professor in the UCSD Division of Global Public Health, is a member of the World Health Organization, Global Task Force on Digital Health for Tuberculosis. The Task Force convened a consultation meeting in Geneva to develop recommendations for the use of mobile technology to accelerate global efforts to eradicate tuberculosis. Dr. Garfein and his team at UCSD (Jazmine Cuevas-Mota, Fatima Munoz, Kelly Collins, Valerie Mercer, Fred Raab and Phil Rios) developed and evaluated a smartphone application called Video Directly Observed Therapy (VDOT) that lets TB patients record and send videos of themselves taking anti-TB therapy that can be watched remotely by a healthcare provider.

Congratulations to Claudia Rafful for getting inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the 14th Annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Read more